These brushes simulate graphite/pencil in photoshop. They're good for sketching, but when used with the blur and smudge tools you can use it for a full graphite drawing and shading. They work with black and white or colour.

There are 2 types of brushes, 'Sketchy' and smooth. There are angled and round versions of each, and a few "fill" brushes which should make it easier to shade larger areas.

I intended these to be used by people who want to use Drawing Tablets in Photoshop, but they can be used with a mouse as well-- however, you won't be able to benefit from the Pen Pressure settings.

Tips:
Make sure you put your colours as default-- Black and White, or set the top colour for whichever hue you'd like, I find that darker colours produce a better result.

If you'd like it to 'build up' like a real pencil you should have the brush set to Darken and/or lower the opacity.

If you want to make these seem more "H" or "B" just go to brush settings and toy with the opacity, flow, and fore/background jitters.

I'd love to see it in action so please show me anything you created using this. Thanks!

For some great tutorials on drawing with Graphite go to [link]

The larger Shading brushes in this pack were not made by me originally, I found those in a set by Dave Nagel and adjusted them for personal use, and included them thinking some people would like them. If you like "traditional media" brushes Dave Nagel has a lot of brushes out on the internet-- just Google his name and you should get a few sites that feature them.


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For photoshop 7 or below, go to [link] and look at the options for the brush. You can make your own- sorry, I don't have photoshop 7 but if someone wants to make these compatible go ahead just make sure to link back!